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The Craft *** (1996, Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell, Rachel True, Skeet Ulrich) – Classic Movie Review 1323

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Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell and Rachel True star as a coven of pretty, cute but scary high-school girls at a Los Angeles Catholic prep school establishment. Troubled teenager Sarah Bailey (Tunney), who has just moved from San Francisco with her father and stepmother, is a newcomer at the school. As an outsider, she naturally soon falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft –  Bonnie (Campbell), Nancy (Balk) and Rochelle (True).

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Sarah in the meantime also becomes attracted to the understandably popular Chris Hooker (Skeet Ulrich). All the four girls are soon conjuring up various spells and curses against anyone who upsets them, summoning up the forces of darkness to help them on their destruction and revenge trail. However, after some spectacular results, Sarah wants out, but the members of the coven won’t let her.

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Co-writer/director Andrew Fleming’s flashy, special-effects-led 1996 teen witchcraft horror flick is pretty creepy and spellbinding, thanks to a reasonable script, the decent production and four personable performances from the four attractive leads as well as Ulrich. Christine Taylor, Assumpta Serna, Cliff DeYoung, Breckin Meyer, Nathaniel Marston and Helen Shaver are useful in support of the stars.

Fleming’s and Peter Filardi’s screenplay is based on the latter’s story.

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Ulrich was born Bryan Ray Trout in Lynchburg, Virginia. In cinema, he is best known for his roles as Chris Hooker in The Craft and Billy Loomis in Scream. Campbell is also best known for Scream, playing heroine Sidney Prescott.

Andrew Fleming also directed Bad Dreams (1988), Threesome (1994), Dick (1999), The In-Laws (2003), Nancy Drew (2007), Hamlet 2 (2008) and Barefoot (2014).

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